Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the task force, speaking for Mr. Gardner, said that while the agency was interested in tapping more university skills it "might do more to strengthen the resources of the universities...
...long has -when the clubby International Air Transport Association convenes next fall. l.A.T.A.'s European lines forced the U.S. to accept higher rates two months ago (TIME, May 24), but the U.S. may well be in a stronger position next fall. Reason: Congress is likely to strengthen the Civil Aeronautics Board's powers of retaliation against balky foreign lines...
...perhaps it is premature to credit the present effort to reexamine Gen Ed with any general views of a cultural ideal. The major problem in General Education is administrative, not philosophical: it is to strengthen the bargaining power of the College in its dealings with the departments, or at the very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest...
...Nathan M. Pusey said he would take a special interest in trying "to keep assembled here the very best teachers that can be found, to work to ensure conditions conducive to their best efforts, and constantly to strive for more effective ways to make their activity touch, quicken, and strengthen the intellectual aspirations of succeeding generations of young people...
Most "take-off" universities start with one strong suit - typically, a good medical school. What marks them is a new effort to strengthen their other schools, to pool their resources with former rivals, to serve the community in some striking way, to install strong leadership and keep moving. Though worried because they lag in undergraduate education, they nonetheless see graduate study as their rising role in a knowledge-hungry society. More than ever they are ready to use money effectively. At least four such schools, all private, have now outstripped their regional reputations and stand ready for national recognition...